Improvement in apparatus for assorting potatoes



sieve or screen with the crotehed standards and the v described.

the sieve, and O is'the screen or perforated bottom, lwhich is composed of wire-ganze, perforated metal, or

or other pendent bearing, that is suspended from a JOHN-E;UNGLIsiLor WEBSTER, NEW YORK.

.Letters Patent N0.102,886, lated May l0, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN 4APPARATUS: FOR ASSORTIN YOTATOES, 8cc.

The Schedule referred to :in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

I, JOHN F. UNGMSH, of \Vebster, in the county of .Monroe and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Apparatus for Sorting Potatoes and other Vegetables and Removing Dirt from the Same. of which the following is a specieation. v y

My improvement vconsists in the combination of a pendent bearing or elia-in, substantially as hereinafter The drawing represents a perspective v iew of my improved apparatus.

In the drawingv v 4 A 'indicates the `rim or hoop that forms lthe sides of other material suitable for the purpose.Y

lThe sieves'may be rnade of vvarious degrees of eoarseness, so as to adapt them to vegetables of dit'- ferent kinds and sizes.

To one side of lthe sieve A is secured a chain, B,

link, c, at the top of the crotched standards b b l), where they arev connected together bymeans of a bolt, d. A

On the opposite side ofthe sieve from thpendent bearing B, I provide handles g y.

The bearing B is made of snehlength as to hold the side of the sieve to which it is connected slightly elevated from the ground or o'or, and Athus gi-ve it a sloping or inclined position while it receives the vegetables. y

A sniioient quantity being lled into the sieve, it is then elevated entirely from the ground by means of' the li'andles g y, and a violentlateral or side motion is imparted toit by the operator, by which means the vegetables or fruits of smaller size are sifted through the openings or perforations of the sieve, while those 'of large size remain.

By this action not only are the smaller vegetables or fruits separated from the larger ones, bnt the dirt will also be eti'ectnally removed from the same, which is an advantage of much importance.

What I cla-iin as my improvement is- The combina-tion and arrangement of the standardsl b b l), sieve A, having handles g'g, and a pendent bear- -ing B, substantially as herein described.

In testimony whereof I hereunto sign my name in the presence of two snl'iseribing witnesses.

' '1 JOHN ll. UNG-LlSH.

Witnesses y J. A. DAvIs,

FRED. A. HATCH. 

